Learn How to Support Your Clients as They Manage Financial Stress

Are you aware how financial stress affects your clients’ wellbeing? Are you even aware how stress – both daily stress and financial stress – affects your own wellbeing? If you are not handling your own stressors, then you can’t be effective at helping your clients understand or take action to deal with their financial stress.

To learn more about financial stress, its negative effects on your clients mental, physical and fiscal health, and ways you can support your clients in managing their stress, you are invited to join us for a free webinar titled How Financial Stress Impacts Wellbeing. Sign up here for the free webinar which takes place Thursday, June 25th at 2:00 PP ET. All individuals who register will also receive a free recording of the webinar.

The Toll of Financial Stress

As those who have taken our Financial Social Work Certification learn, a study by Ohio State University suggested that people who are stressed about debt, particularly from credit cards, tend to be in worse physical condition than folks without money worries. Also, researchers found that the price of financial anxiety ranges from heart attacks, insomnia and explosive emotions to difficulty doing such simple tasks as climbing stairs and carrying groceries. Heart attack was the most prominent health problem noted. Second to heart attack were sleeplessness, the inability to control emotions and a loss of concentration.

Hidden Signs of Stress

These symptoms are not hidden from view. They are just often misunderstood. Some of those hidden stress symptoms include: an increase in allergy symptoms, achy teeth, itchy skin, craving sweets and painful menstrual cramps.

Manage Financial Stress

As you learn in our when you enroll in our Financial Social Work Certification program, being in more control of your money and life is how you can reduce and manage both financial and daily stress. You can empower your clients to take control of their money and their lives by showing them how their relationship with their money drives their financial behavior which then determines their financial circumstances. Once they understand this formula and take advantage of the tools and know-how you share with them, they can experience lasting financial behavioral change and reduce their financial stress.

One of the benefits of attending the webinar is that you will learn strategies to help you and your clients manage stress from our guest speaker Lynn Bufka PhD, Associate Executive Director, Practice, Research and Policy at the American Psychological Association. These strategies, along with what you learn in your Financial Social Work Certification will help you support the mental, physical and fiscal health of your clients.

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Written By Reeta Wolfsohn, CMSW

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